Amaury Maldonado was found on a sidewalk on Elmwood Avenue and pronounced dead at 5:56 this morning, according to prosecutor Andrew Carey's office. Police had been dispatched at 4:31 to a nearby home in response to a domestic dispute.

Carey's office said that autopsy results were not yet available, but "it appeared Mr. Maldonado was the victim of a stabbing."

Investigators say Maldonado "entered a home on Elmwood Avenue, and was stabbed."

Two people in the house were able to leave, Carey's office said. Their names are being withheld.

No charges have been filed in the incident, Carey's office said, but the investigation is "active and continuing."

Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator Daniewicz of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-4018, or Detective Freeman of the Carteret Police Department at (732) 541-3862.

Early Thursday afternoon, residents of the neighborhood began leaving tributes to Maldonado not far from where his body was discovered.

Pauly Kaliczynsky dropped a bunch of yellow flowers at the intersection of Elm and Clifford while investigators from the Carteret Police Department looked on.

"We're all still in shock," he said. Kaliczynsky said he's known Maldonado since childhood. He and other neighbors declined to discuss details of Maldonado's private life. Kaliczynsky described him as a family man who worked construction jobs and as an Amway product salesperson to support his children.